Revolver-stock



P. DONADIO.

REVOLVER STOCK.

APPLlCATlON FILED DEC. 2. 19I9- 1,341,843, v PatentedJune 1,1920.

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UNITED stares PROSPERO DONADIO, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

REVOLVER-STOCK.

Application filed December 2, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Pnosrnno DONADIO, a subject of the King of Italy, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, 1n the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Revolver-Stocks, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to handlesfor pistols and more particularly to cheek-pieces or scales adapted to be substituted for the scales with which the piston or revolver is originally equipped.

The object of the invention is to provide such scales so constructed as to afiord the increased grip desired without interfering with the safety-lock which the weapon may carry, and in such form as to maintain the proper relationship between stock and trigger.

A further object is to provide such scales in forms that may be economically manufactured and easily and reliably secured to the revolver frame without alteration of the latter.

The invention consists in certain details of construction by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described and claimed. 7

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show the invention as it has been carried out in practice.

Figure l is a side elevation of a revolver handle, with the nearest scale removed to show the frame and its parts.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of such handle with both scales in place.

Figs. 8 and 4 are elevations showing the inner or adjacent faces of both scales.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

A is the revolver frame, the handle portion of which is marked A at the rear, A at the front and A at the butt. On the rear portion A is the plate or button B of a safety-lock, to be depressed by the grasp of the hand in conditioning the lock mechanism for firing, as will be understood without detailed description. It will also be un derstood that the original handle-plates or scales supplied with the revolver and following closely the lines of the handle-frame portions have been removed.

The substitute scales are marked C and D, each is the counterpart of the other in outline and each has the usual semicircular Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1920.

Serial No. 341,925.

width equal to the width or thickness of the frame, extending from a point below the plate B to the extremity of the butt and forming a recess d in which the frame fits snugly with its exposed side flush with the face of the offset.

The scale C is plane on its inner face and is applied upon the offset and frame. Both scales are provided with recesses, 0 (Z, located to receive the usual pins or spurs a on the sides of the butt portion A? of the handle-frame, and each is bored and equipped to receive the usual transverse bolt E by which the scales are held in place.

Thus shaped and secured the improved scales provide a handle of the desired large size without lessening the finger distance to the trigger and guard or destroying the balance of the weapon in the hand. There is no interference with the action of the safety-lock, the plate B of which is presented in position to be pressed by the larger hand in the same relative position as when the smaller original scales were in place, adapted for a smaller hand. f

It is to he noted that in my improved construction with the recess entirely in one scale and the scales adapted to be applied to the revolver frame, I avoid the necessity of a joint between the scales along the medial line of the handle, and by reason of thedisposition of such joint to one side of such medial line I am enabled to produce a handle having a more finished appearance, and the shoulder a formed by the end wall of the recess (1 constitutes a rigid abutment for the end of the frame. Furthermore, the fin 1) formed by the offset extends completely across and has a firm bearing on the handle portion A of the frame, the edge bearing against the adjacent edgeof the scale C, and liability to injury or fracture of the fin-corner is avoided.

I claim 1. In a revolver, a frame, scales adapted to embrace and to be attached to the handle portion of said frame, one of said scales being recessed on its inner face to match to and receive the lower part of said handle portion with the end wall of such recess forming an abutment for the end of said handle portion, the other scale having a plane face lying against the adjacent face of the handle portion and the offset portion of the first-mentioned scale, with the fin of said offset portion bearing firm-1y against the handle portion with the joint between the scales disposed to one side of said rear portion of the handle.

2. In a revolver a frame, scales adapted to embrace and to be attached to the handle portion of said frame, one of said scales being recessed on its inner face, said recess having a depth equal to the thickness of the coincidentcportion of the handle and adapted to match to and receive the lower part of said handle portion with the end wall of such recess forming an abutment for the end of said handle portion, the other scale having a plane face lying against the adjacent face of the handle portion, and the ofi'set portion of the firstqnentioned scale, with the fin of said offset portion bearing firmly against the handle portion with the joint between the scales disposedto one side of said'rear portion of the handle, and means detael iably securing said scales to said ban-- dle portion. I

In testimony that ll claim the invention above set forth I affix my signature PROSPE-RO DONADIO.

mark 7 Witness E. WHITNEY. 

